Day: January 10, 2018

Julius Randle and Alex Caruso sat a table along the wall of a Los Angeles nightclub. Both had multiple spent drink glasses in front of them, and both were keeping a keen eye on any woman that walked past. “You know what, dude?” Julius asked his teammate. “What?” “I don’t think any of these women…

OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: De’Aaron Fox took sixteen shots to score fifteen points. That’s the thirteenth time this season that he’s had more field goal attempts than points. However, it’s unwise to dwell on that point because Fox is a skinny, short rookie (skinny short rookies often can’t deal with all the contact they get at…

Bogdan “Serbian Kobe” Bogdanovic is having a great January so far, playing thirty minutes per game and averaging a robust 14/5 on 50% shooting in the four games. He’s still coming off the bench, but his minutes have been consistently near thirty for a while now, so it’s safe to say that Dave Joerger has…

Shabazz Napier for MIP? It’s not going to happen because his raw stats/minutes played are still on the low side, but it’s impressive how much he’s improved since last season. Yeah, his minutes have doubled which resulted in most of the gain in numbers, but he’s way more efficient and looks like a real NBA…

Efficiency isn’t everything in the NBA, but it is something, and Jusuf Nurkic is one of the least efficient centers in the league. He’s still a good player, but think about how much better he would be if he shot a league-average percentage for a bigman! To help him out, I’ve devised a five-step path…

The Mavericks may be looking better than they did at the beginning of the season, but they’re still not going to make any noise in the playoffs this season. It’s cool to get some wins, you know, keep team morale high or whatever (if Oregon Trail taught me one thing it’s that morale doesn’t actually…

Mario Hezonja has now had 10 double-digit scoring games this season. That’s how many he had last year, but these are even more double-digit than those and he didn’t take nearly as long getting them. My excitement for his newfound scoring ability is tempered by the fact that only one of those games resulted in…

You want to know who never put up a game of 16 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocks in their rookie season? A lot of players, but most pertinently for this description, Dwight Howard. Unlike the last time I showed a stat and then claimed rookie Dwight never got it, I was lying to prove…